Work have replaced my 3yr old desktop with a nice new shiny Dell Optiplex 380
Not only am I dropping from a dual Pentium D to a dual celeron, my nvidia GTS250 no longer fits!
I do have a pci-e slot in the machine, but it will need to be a half height card to fit in the chassis
Do Nvidia do any half decent half height cards suitable for crunching seti

Sad to see the old machine go - it had crunched 3.2 million credits for me and was a trusty workhorse

Can't you just ask it back, haven't seen half-height video cards, maybe some older ATI card like 2400.
Or just take a saw and make your own 'Cutting Edge Card', just kiddin tho.
Probably the Chipset used, will do the 'graphics', as 'office machines'
don't need any 'graphical power'.

I'll bet the case has gotten smaller, noticed there are quite a lot of those
little boxes, nothing wrong with them, only very little room for anykind of expansion....

Work have replaced my 3yr old desktop with a nice new shiny Dell Optiplex 380
Not only am I dropping from a dual Pentium D to a dual celeron, my nvidia GTS250 no longer fits!
I do have a pci-e slot in the machine, but it will need to be a half height card to fit in the chassis
Do Nvidia do any half decent half height cards suitable for crunching seti

Sad to see the old machine go - it had crunched 3.2 million credits for me and was a trusty workhorse

Hate to see you lose your 250, I have one in one of my machines and love it. I am not trying to be sarcastic, but have you considered getting a larger case, so that you can keep the 250 alive?

Work have replaced my 3yr old desktop with a nice new shiny Dell Optiplex 380
Not only am I dropping from a dual Pentium D to a dual celeron, my nvidia GTS250 no longer fits!
I do have a pci-e slot in the machine, but it will need to be a half height card to fit in the chassis
Do Nvidia do any half decent half height cards suitable for crunching seti

Sad to see the old machine go - it had crunched 3.2 million credits for me and was a trusty workhorse

Low profile (that's the search term to use) CUDA cards certainly exist, but I don't know if you'd call them even half decent for SETI. So far I've found:

GeForce 8400GS

Quadro FX 370/380

Quadro NVS 290

GeForce 9300GE

Quadro NVS 420

(the first three on general sale, the latter two on the Dell website for the Optiplex range).

The biggest problems for SETI in a low-profile case will be power and cooling - don't expect miracles.

And I wouldn't advocate swapping an Opti 380 motherboard into a larger case, as Clifton suggests: I tried that once, but it turned out that Dell's standards weren't exactly, well, standard. Would have needed a dremmel.....

We donate our used macines to charity, and if I bought it Id have to take it off site and there is no way I would get any more machines past the missus!
As for moving to another case, nothing is standard about a Dell, so it would be a nightmare job..
I have already asked for my old machine back, but they want lower power draw from all machines, so no hope there, and it is known that I have seti set to use 100% of everything, so Im a prime candidate to save the money :-)

Looks like I will be putting the 250 on the bay, it's been a good little card, and a faithful machine - 3 million is not to be sniffed at..

Don't do that. Move all the Dell components into an Antec 300. Thataway you can fit a full height card in your system and not sacrifice anything.What if Fiction was Fact and Fact was Fiction and vice versa?

We donate our used macines to charity, and if I bought it Id have to take it off site and there is no way I would get any more machines past the missus!

MadMac-does your company know you've been crunching on their machine at work?? I'd be ***SUPER CAREFUL*** here....the guidelines for Seti have stated for years that you should get permission before crunching on an employer's machine

MadMac-does your company know you've been crunching on their machine at work?? I'd be ***SUPER CAREFUL*** here....the guidelines for Seti have stated for years that you should get permission before crunching on an employer's machine

Work have replaced my 3yr old desktop with a nice new shiny Dell Optiplex 380
Not only am I dropping from a dual Pentium D to a dual celeron, my nvidia GTS250 no longer fits!
I do have a pci-e slot in the machine, but it will need to be a half height card to fit in the chassis
Do Nvidia do any half decent half height cards suitable for crunching seti

Sad to see the old machine go - it had crunched 3.2 million credits for me and was a trusty workhorse

OK, now I get it, this is a workstation that can't really be modified or put in a different case. You could try an external solution like a Magma Expressbox: http://www.magma.com/expressbox2.asp

The 240 only uses ~69W max so it should work with this box. The 250 is cutting it kind of close though at 150W, it could blow the PSU.

Or if you're willing to get another GTS 250, here's the Newegg link to the Sparkle low profile 250: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187098What if Fiction was Fact and Fact was Fiction and vice versa?